Combined fan and map-guide.



AyH. PLEASANTS. COMBINED .FAN AN'D MAP GUIDEA APPLICATION` FILE? APR.I.19IH3.

.1,17478,479 l Patented July 27,1915.

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'.IH'UR, Hp. PLEASANTS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE EASYGIIIDE. f MANUFACTURING COMPANY, .A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND. l

COMBINED FAN AND MAP-GUIDE.

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To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. PLEAS- AN'rs, acitizen of the United States, resid- ,l

ing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented new and usefulImprovemen-,ts in Combined Fans and Map-Guides, of which the followingis a specication.

Thisinvention relates to a combined fan and imap guide.

One ofthe objects of the invention is to provide a simple guide orindicator, convenient in form, by means of which any point of interest,or of public importance, or the like, lmay be readily and'a'ccuratelylocated upon a map or chart.

A further object is to provide a device of this character by which theshortest route from a given central point to any/other point may bereadily determined.

A further object is to provide a guide orl indicator which may bereadily changed or adjusted at will to successively indicate thelocation of various points on the map or chart.

A further object is to combine a fan and a handle so that the former mayrotate fin the latter, saidfan and handle being provided with coperatingindicating characters by means of which predetermined points on amap' orchart printed on one face of thefan, maydbe accurately located.

The invention will be hereinafter fully set forthA and particularlypointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings :.-Figure 1 is a front view illustrating afan embodying my invention. F ig. 2 is a sectional view "thereof 4Fig. 3is a fragmentary view yof aportion of the rear face of the fan. -vReferring to the draw-ing, H designates a "fan body, preferably circularin shape, made y ofv any suitable or preferred material. The handle Iis-bifurcated at J, the body H'of the fan being mounted to rotatebetween the arms J". Said body H is rotatably secured to the handle I inany suitable or preferred manner, such as the eyelet K, the latterproviding. a simple and efficient means for so uniting the arts that thefan body is free to rotate. n thefront face of the fan is printed,lithographed, or otherwise applied, a map or chart L, a portion of themap of the city of Washington being illustrated 1n the drawing. It willbe noted that the map speeiation of Letters Patent. Y

Application filed. April 1, 1913.

Patented July'27, 1915. Serial Nc. 758,252.

' contains all of the points that are usually of interest to sightseers,together with all the street railways, the latter being indicated by theheavy black lines It will be noted that the map is provided with aplurality of lct'ncentric lines N, said lines being used to indicatedistances from the central point, the distance indicated by the spacebetween any two contiguous lines being one half mile in the formillustrated. The circumference ofthe map is also provided with a bordercontaining numbers or other characters indicatedby O. The arm J of thehandle is divided ofi' into spacescorresponding with.

the spaces between the lines N, each space being designated by a letteror character Q. Said arm J is also provided with an arrow or otherindicating character, located above the characters O. On the back of thefan body is printed a list. .of the various points of interest, saidlist being indicated at R, Fig. 3, and in alinement with each name orlocation vare two characters Q and O corresponding to the characters Q.and Ofrespectively on the'front face of the fanand on arm J.

In operation, the Capitol is the central point, and when the operatordesires to locate any other point he iirst consults the list R on theback of the fan. Assume for instance that he is at the Capitol anddesires to go to the navy yard. He consults list R and finds the navyyard marked F 46. Turning the fanover, the body H is rotated until thearrow S points to the number 46 of the series of characters() and thenby locating the letter F in one of the spaces Qon arml J', it will befound that the navy yard is located just to the left of the handleopposite said letter F. It is obvious that any other point included inthe list R may be readily and quickly located in a similar manner. l.

Having thus explained the nature of my invention and described anoperative manner' of constructing and using the same, although withoutattempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made, or allof the forms ofits use, what I claim is A combined fan and map guidecomprising a' circular body having one face provided with a map or chartsurrounded by circumferential locating characters, said map having apluralityy of concentric zone A rings, a handle to Which said map orchart termined circumferential character the zone character of saidcombination on said handle will be opposite the point it is desired tolocate on the map.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing Witnesses.

ARTHUR H. PLEASANTS.

Witnesses:

'MARY M. MAGRAW,

AUGUST Ronnnn,` Jr.

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